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=== In music === {{listen|filename=Debussy - Syrinx.ogg|title=Syrinx|description=[[Claude Debussy]]'s [[Syrinx (Debussy)|Syrinx]]. Performed by Sarah Bassingthwaighte|format=[[ogg]]}} [[Claude Debussy]] based his 1913 [[Syrinx (Debussy)|''Syrinx'' (Debussy)]] on Pan's sadness over losing his love. The piece is still popular today; it was used as incidental music in the play ''Psyché'' by [[Gabriel Mourey]].<ref>James McCalla, ''Twentieth-century Chamber Music: Routledge Studies in Musical Genres'', Routledge, 2003, p.48</ref> The story of [[Pan (god)|Pan]] and Syrinx is the inspiration for the first movement in [[Benjamin Britten]]'s work for solo oboe, [[Six Metamorphoses after Ovid]] first performed in 1951. Britten titled the movement, "Pan: who played upon the reed pipe which was Syrinx, his beloved." [[Maurice Ravel]] incorporated the character of the Syrinx into his ballet ''[[Daphnis et Chloé]]''. [[Gustav Holst]] alludes to the story of Pan and Syrinx in the opening of his [[Choral Symphony (Holst)|Choral Symphony]], which draws from the text of John Keats' 1818 poem "[[Endymion (poem)|Endymion]]." French Baroque composer Michel Pignolet de Montéclair composed "Pan et Syrinx", a cantata for voice and ensemble (No. 4 of ''Second livre de cantates''). Danish composer [[Carl Nielsen]] composed ''[[Pan and Syrinx]]'' (''Pan og Syrinx''), Op. 49, FS 87. The British folk-rock band Oberon included a flute solo called "Syrinx" on its 1970 album, ''A Midsummer's Night Dream.'' [[Canadians|Canadian]] electronic [[progressive rock]] band [[Syrinx (band)|Syrinx]] took their name from the legend. Canadian [[progressive rock]] band [[Rush (band)|Rush]] have a movement titled "The Temples of Syrinx" in their song "[[2112 (song)|2112]]" on their album ''[[2112 (album)|2112]]''. The song is about a [[dystopia]]n futuristic society in which the arts, particularly music, have been suppressed by the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx. Related to the Rush reference, Maryland based rockers [[Clutch (band)|Clutch]] mention the Temples of Syrinx in their song "10001110101" from their album ''[[Robot Hive/Exodus]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pro-rock.com/index.cfm?page=discography&view=lyrics&albumid=14&lid=21|title = CLUTCH}}</ref>
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